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Laurence Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon

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George Frederick Laurence Hyde Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon (2 February 1933 – 4 July 2009[1]), styled Lord Hyde between 1935 and 1955, was a British peer from the Villiers family.

Villiers was the son of George Herbert Arthur Hyde Villiers, Lord Hyde (1906–1935) and the Honourable Marion Feodorovna Louise Glyn (1900–1970). He succeeded in the earldom on the death of his grandfather in 1955.

Family

Lord Clarendon married Jane Diana Dawson in 1974. They had two children:

  • George Edward Laurence Villiers, 8th Earl of Clarendon (born 1976)
  • Lady Sarah Katherine Jane Villiers (born 1977)

References

  1. ^ "Clarendon, 7th Earl of 2nd, (George Frederick Laurence Hyde Villiers) (2 Feb. 1933–4 July 2009)". Who Was Who. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10963.
Court offices
Preceded by
None due to World War II
(prev. Robert Eliot)
Page of Honour
1948–1950
Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Earl of Clarendon
1955–2009
Succeeded by
George Edward Laurence Villiers